The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-27
THE TICKLE ANARCHIST.
A MAN OF MANY LOWS AND
SWEETHEARTs.
He Wanted 90 MarTy-Miss
Van Carst His Wife.

New YORK, January f6 - August
Spies's idea about matrimony must
have undergone a remarkable change,
according to the following story OF
him frt III man once intimately asso-
ciated with bin: "Slie3 was manly
fellow" said he, "and great favorite
with women. He talked fluently,
dressed well, had pleasant manners
aud blonde moustsche. Women
we're always running after him, and he
had great Influence with them. He
instigated Mrs. Parsons to take
the platform, aud inculcated his
views in Mrs. Niebs, a sister
OF Fischer, The condemned anarchist,
and In Michael Schwsb's wife. Half
educated women would flock to him
and he would drill them 10 the theo.
ries of anarchy aud teach them the
doctrines of free love. The time
would come, he would say, in which
there would be a big social COM
munity without the marriage ties, and
children would be taken charge OF by
the community and reared and edu.
Gated without trou ole to the mothers.
Women would have nothing to Go
but to bring forth children and love
would 60 whittier it liste,h.
81 remember once OF Robert Schnau-
belt, the missing bomb thrower, and
two sisters, one Of whom afterward be.
came Schwab's wife, coming into the
Office of the Arbeiter Zeitlng, Spies's pa
per. The other sister, Marie, had a
little year old boy named Max.
They were Just from Austria. Did
You bring your papa from Germany
| asked the little fellow. i don't
know who he is
"Don't you see anything wrong in
thar l said. No. he said; my
mamma doesn't believe in any such
nonsense as matiimony, and I'm
proud OF it, The whole family ap-
plauded him and were very proud Of
him. OF course ne had been taught to
say this. Everybody thought that
Spies and Marie would live together
as man and wife, but something pre-.
vented aud they never did. Short.
ly alters ward met Miss Lizzie van
Carst, who had come from Mil
waukee. l intr oduced Spies to her
and they took fancy to each other.
She was handsome but uneducated.
She went TO Spies's house and lived
there with his mother and sister. A
lew months later she went back to
Milwaukee, and one day in Detroit
Schnauoelt was talking about Spiee in
saloon when a young man got up
from the table and said:
"Are you talking ABOUT that person
Spies? I'd like to get hold OF him
for persuadiug my sister to live with
him ACCORDING to that freelove doc
trine. His name was Van Carst.
While with Mics Van Carst, Spies al
ways proclaimed that he would never
get MARI ed; that if he should fiud
woman who was educated enough to
understand his view of life she must
be educ ited enough to live with him
without any Ceremony whatever, aud
he always advised his FRIENDS and fol-
lowers, among whom were Fischer and
Schwab, t. live with their wives in
The sans irr5g1lar way. Schnaubelt,
tt bomb thrower, l know, proposed
marriage 10 a rpsps ctAble girl. and
was accepted. Schoaubelt would have
no marriage ceremony, however, and
the match WAS DroBen on.
Another point about Spies is that
he regards himself general, and he
holds back from responsibility on the
ground that the general directs and
doesn't lead, and that il whole regi-
ment is killed the general must be
ready to take commlnd Of another. So
what people call cowaidice in Spies
his friends call strategy. Spies got
these, ideas from Paul g -aottkau, an
editorial writer on the Arbsiter Zeitung.
Already much OF the genial Warden
Wslsh's time is taken up by hand
some New York ladies' who come to
the Tombs looking for matches. He
is required to bring all the Jail birds
out once or twice day and iotroduce
some young lady to them. The pris-
oner holds up his ball and chain in
one hand and tak5s the lady's hand
with the other, and they walk off to
be married.
Sometimes TIE young lady climbs
up tall ladder to the top row of cells
in the Tombs, and Romeo, in a striped
suit, comes out on balcony. Then
old Montague, the turnkey, comes
around and lrcks Romeo in his cell,
and old Capulet, the deputy cons table,
comes around and carries Juliet out OF
the j Ill.
Sometimes the Jail bird is obdurate,
and after the girl has given bouquet
aud knelt at his feet, he repulses her
wi,ha heart as cold as six months in q
stone quarry. Scores of pretty girls
call at the Tombs every day, and have
turned it into a matrimonial agency.